Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Thanksmas!

Every year in my house we have a little dinner party with all of our friends. This dinner party has come to be known as Thanksmas. This being because we have it right in between Thanksgiving and Christmas and we have a huge Thanksgiving-like dinner. This year we had 15 people at our house and let me tell you, it was quite the challenge.

Our house is not very big and it seems even smaller when you cram 2 tables, 15 chairs, 15 people, 2 dogs and a Christmas tree into it. But we made it work, it was awesome and everyone had a great time!

So, today I wanted to share some photos from this awesome event and also give you a little update on my Ice Cream Sandwich Cake, which you can find my recipe for, here. This cake was fan-freaking-tastic. Everyone loved it. Here's some photos of how it came out.

My wonderful hubby serving it up!

This cake was so easy to make and it looks really beautiful when it's all done (please ignore my ugly throw away tray. All of our other good dishes were being used for dinner. Plus using a throw away meant no cleanup!)

When it's all sliced up it looks just as pretty!

As you can see by Ms. M scraping the tray clean, it was quite the hit. Super easy, delicious and it looks store bought? How can you lose?

Here are few little updates for the recipe I posted the other day.

I got 24 ice cream sandwiches and used about 14 for my 10 X 10 container.

I also got 2 of the small (16 oz.) containers of Cool Whip to use and it was the perfect amount.

And did you know that in the baking section of the grocery store they have bags of crushed Heath Bar specifically for this kind of stuff? My husband found it on the search for Heath Bars (because they can be quite hard to find) and I was able to use it instead of crushing them all myself! I call that a win.

So, if you're planning on trying this recipe take those amounts into consideration and adjust accordingly for whatever size cake you are making. And now, here are some of my favorite photos from this years Thanksmas!